CLG Bush 'the king' blows $50m on coronation 01-10-05

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January 10, 2005

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CLG presents . . . Updated! January 10 ... UN-AUGURATION On January 20, in D.C.,

the CLG is conducting an Un-Auguration--a mock dethroning and 'Abu Ghraibing' of

Bush in effigy--for election theft and war crimes.

http://www.legitgov.org/012005/Unauguration05.html

Bush 'the king' blows $50m on coronation --Dictator's lavish inauguration is

'obscene' when US troops are dying in Iraq war, say critics --With a price tag

of up to $50 million, Dictator George W Bush's inauguration in 11 days' time

will be an unashamed celebration of Red America's victory over Blue America in

last November's election. [uh, since there was no 'election,' there could be no

'victory.']

D.C. Says White House Won't Reimburse Inauguration Costs --City Will Be Forced

to Divert Money From Homeland Security Projects --D.C. officials said yesterday

that the Bush dictatorship is refusing to reimburse the District for most of the

costs associated with next week's inauguration, breaking with precedent and

forcing the city to divert $11.9 million from homeland security projects.

Bush Dictatorship Trying to Intimidate Protesters... we will protest,

regardless. Inaugural Security Draws on Latest Technologies --Intelligence to

Stream Into Command Center From 50 Police Agencies Aloft and on the Ground --The

nerve center for the most heavily guarded presidential inauguration in history

will not be in Washington, where Dictator Bush will take the oath of office, but

25 miles away in a futuristic command post in Northern Virginia. Inside a

gleaming steel-and-marble complex, the Secret Service and 50 federal, state and

local agencies will monitor action in the sky, on the ground and in the subway

system. Giant plasma screens will beam in live video from helicopters and

cameras at the U.S. Capitol, along the parade route and at other potential

trouble spots. Officials will be able to track fighter jets patrolling the

skies, call up three-dimensional maps of downtown, even project the plume of any

chemical release.

Inauguration Controversy Widens --Crosses will be banned from this month's

inaugural parade in Washington, D.C. The Rev. Patrick Mahoney and the Christian

Defense Coalition were granted a permit to hold a prayer vigil and demonstration

during the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day. In that permit

the list of prohibited " structures " includes crosses—along with bicycles,

crates, coffins, cages and statues.

Pentagon mulls military command for intelligence --The Pentagon is considering

establishing a new four-star military command for intelligence, reflecting

concern that the powerful civilian intelligence post created by Congress last

year could weaken the Pentagon's grip on its vast intelligence assets.

U.S. Considers Elite Hit-Squads for Iraq -Report --The Pentagon is debating

whether to set up elite hit-squads to target leaders of the Iraq insurgency in a

new strategy based on tactics used against leftist freedom fighters in Central

America 20 years ago, Newsweek magazine reported on Saturday.

'The Salvador Option' --The Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or

kidnapping teams in Iraq --The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called " the

Salvador option " ...The Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates

back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan regime’s battle against the

leftist freedom fighters in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a

losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the U.S. government funded or supported

" nationalist " forces that allegedly included death squads directed to hunt down

and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers. ...Following that model, one Pentagon

proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train

Iraqi [death] squads to target Sunni insurgents and their 'sympathizers,' even

across the border into Syria, according to military insiders familiar with the

discussions. It remains unclear, however, whether this would be a policy of

assassination or so-called " snatch " operations, in which

the targets are sent to secret facilities for interrogation.

Insurgents Kill Deputy Police Chief of Baghdad --Two American soldiers were

killed by a roadside blast while on patrol in Baghdad today and four were

wounded, shortly after the city's deputy police chief was slain along with his

son as they left their house.

Iraq Insurgents Increase Explosives' Power --A roadside bomb destroyed a second

heavily armored Bradley Fighting Vehicle in less than a week Monday, killing two

U.S. soldiers, wounding four others and indicating that insurgents have

increased the power of the explosives they are using against American troops.

Bomb Destroys U.S. Tank, Kills Two Soldiers in Iraq --A roadside bomb destroyed

a U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Baghdad on Monday, killing two American

soldiers and wounding four, the U.S. military said.

Britain to Deploy More Troops for Iraqi 'Elections' --The United Kingdom will

deploy more troops to Iraq to help provide security support during the upcoming

Iraqi elections, the British defense secretary announced today in London.

US deserters flee to Canada to avoid service in Iraq --American Army soldiers

are deserting and fleeing to Canada rather than fight in Iraq, rekindling

memories of the thousands of draft-dodgers who flooded north to avoid service in

Vietnam. An estimated 5,500 men and women have deserted since the invasion of

Iraq, reflecting Washington's growing problems with troop morale.

Ukraine orders troops home from Iraq --Ukraine's outgoing president has ordered

officials to draw up plans to withdraw the country's 1,600 troops home from Iraq

in the first half of 2005 after eight of its soldiers were killed in a blast.

Iraqi Dogs Have Plenty of Food After Response to Soldier's Plea --Just before

the New Year, Army Reserve Capt. Gabriella Cook sent an urgent e-mail from Iraq

requesting food shipments. Not for her or her unit - for Iraqi police dogs. " The

dogs are starving and urgently need dry dog food, " Cook wrote in a Dec. 28

e-mail that said the Iraqi Interior Ministry's only bomb-sniffing police dogs

were eating table scraps and garbage. The response to the canine crisis has been

overwhelming: Offers of help poured in from New Hampshire, Florida, Texas, Ohio

and New York.

Iraqi Muslim Scholars offered to call off election boycott if US troop

withdrawal was set -- US rejects AMS' poll conditions --The influential

Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq has met a senior US embassy official and

offered to call off an election boycott in return for a US timetable for troop

withdrawal. US embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said on Monday the offer was made

at a meeting on Saturday with the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), which

has previously called on Iraqis to boycott the 30 January ballot. But chances of

Washington setting such a schedule for the withdrawal of roughly 150,000 troops

are slim.

Iraq Elections: A Victory for Terror --by Bernhard Zand, Der Spiegel " Washington

and Baghdad are still sticking to plans to hold Iraqi elections at the end of

January... It was an astonishing figure, even for Iraqis. Last week the head of

Iraqi intelligence, Mohammed Shahwani, reported that the Iraqi terrorist [sic]

and resistance movement numbered 200,000... No one at the Pentagon has denied

General Shahwani's numbers, even though they exceed Washington's previous

estimates by a factor of about ten. "

U.S. denies GIs killed Iraq civilians --A U.S. spokesman denied on Monday that

American soldiers killed five civilians in a hail of gunfire after a roadside

bomb exploded near American troops, and an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman who

initially issued the report backed away from the claim.

Shocking New Videos Shown at Iraq Abuse Scandal --A lawyer for Charles Graner,

accused ringleader in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, on Monday compared piling

naked prisoners into pyramids to cheerleader shows and said leashing inmates was

also acceptable prisoner control... Prosecutors also presented shocking new

videos and photos from Abu Ghraib prison, including forced group masturbation.

Guy Womack, Graner's attorney, said using a tether was a valid method of

controlling detainees. ... " In Texas we'd lasso them and drag them out of there. "

Witness: Graner Punched Iraqi Prisoner --The alleged ringleader of the Abu

Ghraib prison scandal went on trial Monday with witnesses telling a military

court they watched him punch an Iraqi inmate in the face and saw him laugh while

forcing prisoners to pose naked.

Torture? Not if cheerleaders do it, lawyer claims --Forcing naked Iraqi

prisoners to pile themselves in human pyramids was not torture, because American

cheerleaders do it every year, a court was told today. A lawyer defending

Specialist Charles Graner, who is accused of being a ringleader in the Abu

Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, argued that piling naked prisoners in pyramids

was a valid form of prisoner control. " Don't cheerleaders all over America form

pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture? " said Guy Womack, Sergeant

Graner’s lawyer, in opening arguments to the ten-member military jury at the

reservist’s court martial.

[Nutball] Lawyer: Iraqi Abuse Was Like Act of 'Cheerleaders' --A lawyer for

Charles Graner, accused ringleader in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, on Monday

compared piling naked prisoners into pyramids to cheerleader shows and said

leashing inmates was also acceptable prisoner control.

Americans make mockery of justice (Gulfnews.com) " Two men were pushed into a

river by armed men. One of them died, swept away by the current. One of the

accused publicly apologised to his own family, colleagues, but pointedly not to

the victim's family. This crime, and the offhand almost insulting manner of the

apology, would merit a stiff jail term in Europe or the United States if it had

been committed there. The crime was committed in Iraq on an Iraqi by an American

sergeant. "

Schumer's Gonzales Praise Sickens --by Bill Gallagher " Democratic senators who

vote to confirm Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States are

irredeemable whores who believe in nothing and will vote that way for reasons of

political correctness -- to avoid the stigma of opposing the first Hispanic to

be nominated for that office. The Democrats should use every means at their

disposal to thwart his nomination, and that means a filibuster. Opposing the

manifestly unfit Gonzales is a profound moral issue that reaches to the very

essence of what our nation stands for and what our Constitution means. "

Canada's Martin Denies Agreeing to U.S. Missile Defense Plan --Canada's Prime

Minister Paul Martin denied giving assurances to the U.S. that Canada would join

the U.S. ballistic-missile defense system for North America by the end of March.

U.S.: bin Laden may be in eastern Afghanistan --Rove freelancer, Osama bin

Laden, and other militant leaders could be hiding in eastern Afghanistan, the

commander of U.S. forces along a key stretch of the Pakistani border told The

Associated Press on Monday.

Congress passes 'doomsday' plan --With no fanfare, the U.S. House has passed a

controversial doomsday provision that would allow a handful of lawmakers to run

Congress if a terrorist attack or major disaster killed or incapacitated large

numbers of congressmen. " I think (the new rule) is terrible in a whole host of

ways - first, I think it's unconstitutional,'' said Norm Ornstein, a counselor

to the independent Continuity of Government Commission, a bipartisan panel

created to study the issue. GOP House leaders pushed the provision as part of a

larger rules package that drew attention instead for its proposed ethics

changes, most of which were dropped. Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.), one of few

lawmakers active on the issue, argued the rule change contradicts the U.S.

Constitution, which states that " a majority of each (House) shall constitute a

quorum to do business. " Changing what constitutes a quorum in this way would

allow less than a dozen lawmakers to declare war on another

nation,'' Baird said.

ACLU asks police, DA to halt Cape Cod DNA testing --Civil libertarians asked

Cape Cod authorities on Monday to stop collecting DNA samples from men in Truro

as part of their investigation into the 3-year-old murder of fashion writer

Christa Worthington.

To Try to Net Killer, Police Ask a Small Town's Men for DNA --In an unusual

last-ditch move to find clues to the three-year-old killing of a freelance

fashion writer, police investigators are trying to get DNA samples from every

man in this Cape Cod hamlet, all 790 or so, or as many as will agree. Raising

concerns among civil libertarians and prompting both resistance and support from

men in Truro, the state and local police began collecting the genetic samples

last week, visiting delicatessens, the post office and even the town dump to

politely ask men to cooperate.

More Red State ignorance/lunacy: Southern Mississippi library system bans Jon

Stewart's best-selling book --Library officials in two southern Mississippi

counties have banned Jon Stewart's best-selling " America (The Book). "

US probes chlorine train tampering --US investigators are looking into why

railway points were set to switch a train carrying toxic chlorine gas to a line

where rail carriages were parked on a siding. Nine people were killed and more

than 250 sickened by the toxic chlorine gas that leaked from the railway tank

car damaged in the wreck of a Norfolk Southern train in Graniteville, South

Carolina early on Thursday.

Holy hypocrisy, Batman!!! Republicans try to block Gregoire's certification as

governor --Washington’s new legislative session opened on a sharply partisan

note Monday as the Democrats rallied around their embattled governor-elect,

Christine Gregoire, refusing to let Republicans block certification of her

narrow election. Republicans said the election was riddled with errors serious

enough to undermine voter confidence and to throw the outcome in doubt. [Oh: you

mean like... Ohio???]

Democrats rubber-stamp Bush victory in Electoral College --by Patrick Martin " So

it was Thursday, in the display of opposition by a handful of congressional

Democrats to the certification of George Bush’s victory in the 2004 presidential

election. The transformation of tragedy into farce was complete: from Al Gore to

John Kerry. From the state of Florida to the state of Ohio. From the Democratic

Party of 2001, victorious in the popular vote but robbed by the US Supreme

Court, to the Democratic Party of 2005, defeated, demoralized and discredited.

And one other substitution: instead of the cowardly capitulation by the entire

Democratic Party leadership in the 2000 post-election crisis, a pathetic effort

by Senator Barbara Boxer to strike a more 'left' pose, even as the Democrats

deepen their collaboration with Bush’s policies of war and reaction. "

Democrats Are United in Plans to Block Top Bush Initiatives [Yeah, right! By

LieberBush posing in the Rose Garden with Bush again, as he did after voting for

the illegal, immoral war in Iraq?] As Dictator Bush prepares for his second

term, Democrats in Washington and around the country are organizing for a year

of confrontation and resistance, saying they are determined to block Bush's

major initiatives and thereby deny him the mandate he has claimed from his

reselection victory [sic] last November.

Why wasn't GOP media whore Judith Miller fired over her Iraq 'reporting???' CBS

fires 4 execs over Bush story --Four CBS News staffers were fired Monday

following the release of an independent investigation that said a " myopic zeal "

led to a " 60 Minutes Wednesday " story about Dictator Bush's military service

that relied on allegedly forged documents. [Cocaine-abuser George W. Bush was

*AWOL* - that fact does not change.]

Supreme Court Sides with Klan in Adopted Highway Program --The U.S. Supreme

Court let stand on Monday a ruling that the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group

can take part in Missouri's " Adopt-A-Highway " program in which volunteers pick

up trash along the road and the state puts up a sign thanking the group.

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case on Adoption by Gay People --The Supreme

Court declined today to hear a challenge to Florida's ban on adoption by gay

people, the only such state law in the country.

People's Choice Award goes to Fahrenheit 9/11 --The season of award shows kicked

off Sunday night with Michael Moore's controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11 winning

the People's Choice Award for favourite movie.

Bush Names Ex-GOP Chair Economic Adviser --Dictator Bush has named as his top

economic adviser an Indiana businessman and former state Republican Party

chairman who was one of Bush's top fund-raisers for both presidential campaigns.

Malpractice suits aren't what needs fixing here --by David Morris " One of the

major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous

lawsuits, President [sic] Bush has told the American people. Here are seven

facts that prove him wrong: Insurance rates do not vary with the amount of

claims paid out as much as with the amount of investment income that comes

in... "

Verizon's E-Mail Embargo Enrages -- Verizon Communications customers expecting

e-mail from across the pond may be in for a long wait. The internet service

provider has been blocking e-mail originating from Great Britain and other parts

of Europe for weeks, and customers are upset about having their communications

disrupted without notice.

Billionaire urges Bush to give inaugural funds to tsunami survivors --Dallas

billionaire Mark Cuban has a suggestion for Dictator Bush: Cancel the

inauguration parties and donate the money saved -- some $40 million -- to the

tsunami victims.

US aid helicopter crashes in Aceh --A US helicopter on a tsunami relief

operation crashed Monday near Banda Aceh's airport, injuring at least two

American servicemen, while strong aftershocks and security concerns provided

more challenges for aid workers two weeks after the disaster hit.

[Previous lead stories:] Michael Rectenwald, Ph. D., CLG Founder and Chair,

appeared on MSNBC's 'Scarborough Country, January 6. [Transcript: " RECTENWALD:

Actually, Joe, that‘s not true. The polls show that the public does not support

the tax cuts for the 1 percent... " ]

 

 

U.S. 'accidentally' drops 500-pound bomb on Mosul house --The United States

military said it dropped a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the

northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing five people. The man who owned the

house said the bomb killed 14 people, and an Associated Press photographer said

seven of them were children.

As Iraqis return to Fallujah, many find everything they knew destroyed --As

Iraqi and American politicians talk about the promise of democracy and national

elections scheduled for the end of this month, only a fraction of Fallujah's

300,000 residents have returned home. Many are coming from the cold, filthy

camps they fled to before a U.S. offensive in November to 'retake' the rebel

town. [Retake?!? How can you 'retake' something that was never yours???]

Insurgents Step Up Attacks Ahead of Iraq 'Elections' --Militants abducted three

senior Iraqi officials, beheaded a man who worked for the US military and killed

at least eight others, officials said today Earlier, an explosion at a house

south of Mosul which killed 14 people and wounded five was blamed on a US air

attack.

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